Composition comprising an oil phase

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12426608-B2
Application number	US-201615767684-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 18, 2016
Priority date	Oct 19, 2015
Publication date	Sep 30, 2025
Grant date	Sep 30, 2025

Abstract

The present invention relates to a composition comprising an oil phase and a fibrous preparation of delaminated cell wall material dispersed in said oil phase, wherein the cell wall material is sourced from plant tissue, and wherein said fibrous preparation has a specific surface area corresponding to an S BET of at least 5 m 2 /g. The invention also relates to a method to prepare such compositions and the use of said cell wall material to structure the oil phase of a composition comprising an oil phase.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A composition comprising an oil phase and a fibrous preparation of delaminated cell wall material dispersed in said oil phase, wherein the cell wall material is sourced from plant tissue, and wherein said fibrous preparation has a specific surface area corresponding to an S BET of at least 5 m 2 /g,
wherein the delaminated cell wall material has an open network structure of fibers formed by liquid nitrogen freezing and freeze-drying,
wherein the cell wall material is citrus fibre, tomato fibre, sugar beet fibre, sugar cane fibre or a combination thereof; and
wherein the fibrous preparation is in particulate form and wherein the fibrous preparation is such that, when a dispersion containing between 0.05 and 0.2 wt-% of the fibrous preparation in a hydrophobic liquid is sieved, at least 70 wt % of the fibrous preparation passes a sieve with apertures of 500 μm and not more than 30 wt % of the fibrous preparation passes a sieve with apertures of 125 μm.

2. The composition according to claim 1 , wherein the fibrous preparation has a specific surface area corresponding to an S BET of at least 15 m 2 /g.

3. The composition according to claim 1 , wherein the oil phase is a structured oil phase.

4. The composition according to claim 1 , wherein the oil phase comprises a hydrophobic carrier wherein the hydrophobic carrier is an edible oil, a paraffin, a silicone oil or a combination thereof.

5. The composition according to claim 4 , wherein the hydrophobic carrier is an edible oil.

6. The composition according to claim 5 , wherein the hydrophobic carrier is a triglyceride carrier, a diglyceride carrier or a mixture of triglycerides and diglycerides.

7. The composition according to claim 1 wherein the oil phase comprises from 1 to 5 wt-% of said fibrous preparation.

8. The composition according to claim 1 , wherein the hydrophobic liquid is sunflower oil.

9. The composition according to claim 1 , wherein the hydrophobic liquid is a triglyceride oil.

10. The composition according to claim 1 , wherein the delaminated cell wall material is a dried fibrous preparation that is directly incorporated into the oil phase upon contact therewith.

11. The composition according to claim 10 , wherein the dried fibrous preparation has a water of content of 20 wt % or less.

Assignees

• Conopco Inc

Inventors

• Van Der Hijden Hendrikus Theodorus W M
• Nijsse Jacob
• Vreeker Robert
• Verbeek Jan Hendrik T
• Khalloufi Seddik

Classifications

• A23D9/02

  characterised by the production or working-up · CPC title

• A23D7/02

  characterised by the production or working-up {(kneading, forming A01J21/00)} · CPC title

• A23D7/0056

  Spread compositions · CPC title

• A23D9/007 Primary

  characterised by ingredients other than fatty acid triglycerides · CPC title